Siri raise to speak not working

Not working for me in 5.1.3 hey Siri or raise to speak. Working fine before update. Ta

works for me (Series 3, v5.1.3). Even raise to speak behaved correctly, much to my amazement so the obvious solutions are:

Check Siri settings in iPhone settings

Forced Reset watch and iPhone

Unpair and re-pair. Try restoring from backup in the first attempt, if still no good try again with setup as new watch.

watchOS 5.1.3 has fixed the bug.

alleluja!!

As @ciscApple just pointed out, watchOS 5.1.3 fixed the bug. At least te spanish talking Siri is working perfectly now.

I thought I was having the same problem, then I discovered I have to raise the watch really vertical (as with the screen "L perpendicular" to the floor) and speak with a medium-to-high volume voice.

You need to raise your watch and put it close to your mouth.

And if you don't want to put the watch so close to your mouth, you can still say "hey Siri" - but the watch needs one or the other to let it know that you want to activate Siri.

MacRumors has a good article about it -

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/use-siri-raise-to-speak-watchos-5/

This was the answer ... been trying to figure out why it hasn't been working properly ... tried changing the orientation of the watch face to vertical as you described ... works every time now.

Thanks!

I found that I had to raise the phone to my mouth really quickly. That did the trick.

I don't think the watch has a proximity sensor, so it doesn't know if it's close to your mouth or far at arm's length distance. In both cases I see it works the same. Of course you'll have to speak a little louder if it's not close.

I got the same impression, but then I tried to go where my wifi reception is better. Furthermore you should try to make your question as soon as your arm is still being raised even if the watch hasn't reached the mouth's height, for me it works well now. Or possibly there is some interference in the bluetooth range between your phone and watch?

No, not a proximity sensor and I don't mean that you need to put it right up near your lips. Just closer than you would normally do if you were looking at the time. I think it does either detect the volume (so speaking louder should work too), or by putting it closer to your mouth you may naturally make it more vertical as you suggested.

My iPhone X and Apple Watch 3 (GPS + Cellular) are paired perfectly on same Wifi network.

Settings on watch have both “Hey Siri” and “Raise to Speak” enabled.

No matter what I do, raising my wrist will not enable Siri, including an attempt at rebooting my watch running on OS5.

Just picked up my Series 4 today and the “Raise to Speak” feature for at least me works when my arm is at the vertical position along side my body, I then will wake my watch and ask a question once the watch is close to my mouth. I noticed that while I am sitting in my recliner that if I wake my watch, raise it to my mouth and ask a question I get no response because again my arm is not being brought up from the vertical position.

I was having the same problems and it does boil down to the orientation of your arm when you issue the command.

I can get it working every time by raising my arm in such a way that I am speaking normally to the digital crown “side” of the watch, with my voice directed “down the back” side of my left hand. Essentially after raising my arm correctly, I can see the display, but envision the watch’s screen facing just over your left shoulder (assuming the watch is on your left arm).

Hope that helps! Unfortunately the whole “I’ll tap you when I’m ready” is still a problem on Series 4...